Aston Villa v Palace Post-Match Thread

[Percy McCarthy]

Yep, Cardiff would be prefect. I went years ago for a Play Off final with Walsall. It's a cracking ground.

Hopefully we wouldn’t get schooled there.

[Flamingo Lane]

As an aside, how can a whole bunch of pyrotechnics be allowed into the ground through security? And who decides that it is in order for an FA Cup Semi Final to be played against the background noise of organised and continuous drumming?

[andyh]

As an aside, how can a whole bunch of pyrotechnics be allowed into the ground through security? And who decides that it is in order for an FA Cup Semi Final to be played against the background noise of organised and continuous drumming?

Agreed on the flares, not sure how they managed that.

As for their support, I thought it was magnificent.
Fair play to them

[Percy McCarthy]

You also have the issue that Mings, by his own admission, is playing through pain in every game. And also is a mistake a game himself and has poor distribution, paticularly when playing XI men behind the ball.

We’ve won the last eight games that Tyrone Mings has started, are unbeaten in the last eleven and only lost one in the last eighteen.

That’s not bad for a player who makes a mistake a game, or as I see it, an error leading to a goal every 2,340 minutes, or 26 games.

Then again, as billybronte would have it, facts prove nothing.

[ChicagoLion]

As an aside, how can a whole bunch of pyrotechnics be allowed into the ground through security? And who decides that it is in order for an FA Cup Semi Final to be played against the background noise of organised and continuous drumming?

Agreed on the flares, not sure how they managed that.

As for their support, I thought it was magnificent.
Fair play to them

They were so much more up for it, I was waiting for our fans to get going but once they scored it just felt so flat and inevitable.

[dave.woodhall]

As an aside, how can a whole bunch of pyrotechnics be allowed into the ground through security? And who decides that it is in order for an FA Cup Semi Final to be played against the background noise of organised and continuous drumming?

And how do they manage to get an entire block of seats for themselves?

[ChicagoLion]

As an aside, how can a whole bunch of pyrotechnics be allowed into the ground through security? And who decides that it is in order for an FA Cup Semi Final to be played against the background noise of organised and continuous drumming?

And how do they manage to get an entire block of seats for themselves?

As Palace a dedicated “Ultra” area then pretty easy for them to locate all the wankers seats in one area.

[RamboandBruno]

The drumming is just annoying plastic fan shite in the same way the PSG fans were just chanting moronically no matter what was happening in the game. Are the Palace drummers even watching the bloody football.
Our support was fine before the game and at the start, but it was such a flat first twenty minutes or so from the team, it sucked the life out of us, then Eze scored and that was it. When they missed the penalty, their support piped down and if we’d managed to rouse ourselves and equalise in that period, the noise inside the ground would of been different. 

[Ian.]

As an aside, how can a whole bunch of pyrotechnics be allowed into the ground through security? And who decides that it is in order for an FA Cup Semi Final to be played against the background noise of organised and continuous drumming?

And how do they manage to get an entire block of seats for themselves?

As Palace a dedicated “Ultra” area then pretty easy for them to locate all the wankers seats in one area.

Was it something the club arranged with Wembley or did they manage to contact the fans individually and then redistribute them between themselves?

[SaddVillan]

Went to the cutlery drawer in the kitchen this morning to lay the table for breakfast and all I could find was spoons.

My wife had taken the precaution of hiding away all the knives and sharp stuff!

I think your wife deserves a medal for putting up with being married to Alanis Morrisette all these years.

You'll have to explain that one to me SE.

Ah, apologies. I won't link to the song on account of it being shite, but Alanis Morrissette's most famous song, Ironic, in which she lists things that aren't ironic, contains the line: 'it's like 10,000 spoons when all you need is a knife.'

It wasn't really worth the effort of the weak gag in the end!

Cheers SE.

It was worth it, one of which I'd most certainly have chuckled at, had my knowledge of Alanis Morissette's catalogue been greater than the big fat zero it is.

[Deano's Mullet]

We sounded alright on telly up until the penalty. You could hear quite a few songs and that bloody annoying Allez allez allez as usual. There were strains of Pride of Birmingham early second half but didn't really get going from sounds of it. At 2-0  though all you could hear was them.

[ChicagoLion]

We sounded alright on telly up until the penalty. You could hear quite a few songs and that bloody annoying Allez allez allez as usual. There were strains of Pride of Birmingham early second half but didn't really get going from sounds of it. At 2-0  though all you could hear was them.

I was on the half way line and they were making much more noise consistently.
The only time when it wasn’t like that was immediately after the penalty miss but it was short lived.

[SoccerHQ]

As an aside, how can a whole bunch of pyrotechnics be allowed into the ground through security? And who decides that it is in order for an FA Cup Semi Final to be played against the background noise of organised and continuous drumming?

And how do they manage to get an entire block of seats for themselves?

Palace wouldn't have had the demand we did for tickets so I get the feeling they quietly organised it so their ultra lot were right behind the goal like they are at Selhurst. When I went to the VP game last season v them they didn't sell out the upper Witton section so guess it is easier to arrange where 25k want to sit than what we had.

Looking elsewhere and seems there were problems from kick off with the issue being those who wanted to stand and those who wanted to sit and watch the game so we need to sort that out for future visits and maybe identify sections and sell tickets directly for fans who want to stand.

Palace identified a small win and their team fed off it on the day.

[cdbearsfan]

We sounded alright on telly up until the penalty. You could hear quite a few songs and that bloody annoying Allez allez allez as usual. There were strains of Pride of Birmingham early second half but didn't really get going from sounds of it. At 2-0  though all you could hear was them.

I was on the half way line and they were making much more noise consistently.
The only time when it wasn’t like that was immediately after the penalty miss but it was short lived.

Of course they're making more noise if they had drums, FFS. Anyone can make noise with drums, that's their principal purpose. They should be banned, the cheating twats.

[Archbishop Herbert Cockthrottle]

Things I hate about modern football:
1. Drums
2. Cocaine
3. Anything other than a 3pm kick off for a semi final
4. The bloke who sat next to me who came in 15 minutes late, watched 10 mins of football, went off, came back for 10 minutes in the second half just to abuse the Palace fans and then fucked off.
5. Drums.
6. Tippy tappy at the back
7. People on the phone waving to mates in another stand
8. The cheerleaders in black. You can stick your 'ultras' up your arse
9. Flares. The trousers and the flaming kind. They look shit.
10. Drums. Personally, I would line the streets with crucified drummers as a deterrent. Security should be instructed to punch a hole through any drum skin within a mile of a football stadium. Annoying ******.